Dr Lois Lee
Senior Lecturer in Secular Studies
University of Kent
United Kingdom
Biography
Lois Lee is Senior Lecturer in Secular Studies at the University of Kent. Her main research interests are in sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to values, ethics and the existential, particularly in relation to modernisation processes and with an empirical focus on atheism, nonreligion and secularism. Her work also engages extensively with questions around the role of religious and nonreligious worldviews in public life and policy.
She was PI of the Scientific Study of Nonreligious Belief project (UCL 2015-2016, John Templeton Foundation) and the Understanding Unbelief research programme (University of Kent 2017-2021, John Templeton Foundation), and is co-PI of the Explaining Atheism research programme (QUB 2022-2024). She was founding director of the Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network and the journal Secularism and Nonreligion.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Website
https://www.kent.ac.uk/religious-studies/people/1661/lee-lois
Publications
Recognizing the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular
OUP 2015
https://academic.oup.com/book/27632
Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization: Practical Tools for Improving Teaching, Research, and Scholarship
2022
Editors:Abby Day, Lois Lee, Dave S. P. Thomas, and James Spickard
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-decolonisation
Negotiating Religion: Cross-disciplinary perspectives
Routledge 2017
Editors:François Guesnet, Cécile Laborde and Lois Lee
https://www.routledge.com/Negotiating-Religion-Cross-disciplinary-perspectives/Guesnet-Laborde-Lee/p/book/9780367596163
The Oxford Dictionary of Atheism
OUP 2016
Co-authors: Stephen Bullivant
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191816819.001.0001/acref-9780191816819
Secularity and Non-religion
Routledge 2013
Editors:Elisabeth Arweck, Stephen Bullivant and Lois Lee
https://www.routledge.com/Secularity-and-Non-Religion/Arweck-Bullivant-Lee/p/book/9780415710442
